Gloucester mayor John Rosenbaum has expressed his distrust of the processes behind a move by the NSW Government to amend planning regulations around fracking.

If amendments to the Environmental Planning Policy go through, it could allow AGL to test-frack gas wells without a full environmental impact statement.

This would see fracking of CSG wells less than a kilometre from Gloucester residences.

Councillor Rosenbaum says the so-called 'Gloucester Dialogue' has failed in this instance, as he had no idea the changes were to be proposed.

He says the government and AGL are changing the rules to suit themselves.

"The pilot wells they want to frack over the next few months evidently they have not complied to the regulations as they are now," he said.

"By changing this this will allow that to happen - I don't think that's right.

"Legally it doesn't seem fair to me that they change the rules to suit these pilot wells because they didn't come under the conditions that are now available that they're able to operate under - the regulations."

The government has allowed until next week for public submissions to the amendments.

Councillor Rosenbaum fears the amendments, if passed, would be made retrospective to cover Gloucester.

He says the government's processes are difficult to trust.

"You really have to have doubts again," he said.

"The trust you continue to be concerned about the trust involved in all this and you worry about the process and having confidence in it and if it's happening in this area would it be happening in other areas too.

"So that's the problem that I face with these changes, especially if they're going to make them retrospective."

But AGL says a full review of environmental factors for the project was lodged with the State Government last year.

Spokeswoman Suzanne Westgate says the pilot fracking project is for existing wells so an EIS is not needed.

"Stage one of the Gloucester project already has all state and Commonwealth planning approval, to drill and fracture simulate 110-wells," she said.

"The state approval was granted a couple of years ago by the Independent Planning Assessment Commission, and that was upheld in the Land and Environment Court.

"So this activity is simply fracture simulating four existing wells."

The State Opposition leader John Robertson says the move should be raising alarm bells across the state.

"Fracking causes all sorts of consequences and raises very serious concerns about contamination to water aquifers, our water supplies," he said.

"The proposal to allow AGL to proceed with such a process without a full Environment Impact Statement runs risk of compromising the planning system and our water."

A spokesman for the Planning Minister Pru Goward says the move creates greater certainty for industry and community.

Covering nearly one-third of the continent, in deserts with poor soils, humble Australian spinifex grasses contain nano-sized particles that can amp the performance of a range of everyday items, researcher Nasim Amiralian writes.

Former treasurer Wayne Swan says that real private sector wages have grown by just 1 per cent under the Abbott and Turnbull governments, which he says equates to only one year of growth under the previous Labor government.